Buyer’s Guide
Edwardian furniture gets a bad rap,’ says Oliver Miller, director of the auction house Bishop & Miller.
‘It all gets lumped together, and is then dismissed as mass-produced, low quality, and lacking in any coherent style.’ An unfair and rather narrow assessment of a period in which interior design and manufacturing flourished.
Although Edward VII only reigned from 1901 to 1910, these days we tend to think of the Edwardian period ending at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The start of the 20th century was a time of relative peace and growing prosperity, described more romantically as the ‘BelleÉpoque’ in France, or the ‘Gilded Age’ in America.
